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Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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    edmaul69 @mediamogul
    last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 03:48

    @mediamogul i will try another virtual hard drive i made.

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      edmaul69 @mediamogul
      last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 05:47

      @mediamogul so i did a fresh install of 8.1 (no update this time) uninstalled and reinstalled basilisk. No luck. Crashes everytime i switch to 256 colors. Even if i go directly into the monitor settings on os 8.1. But hey! If it means anything i managed to get the whole pi stuck in 640x480 256 so i could keep going back into os8.1 without rebooting. Lol

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        mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
        last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 05:59

        @edmaul69

        At this point, the only difference between our two setups is the amount of allotted RAM. Is it possible that's the issue?

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          edmaul69 @mediamogul
          last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 06:12

          @mediamogul nope i just tried that. A possible fyi with 132 megs of ram after i changed my colors to millions (32bit) after restarting it would load os8.1 but the desktop icons never came up and my cursor was stuck on the watch not allowing me to do anything. Once i switched it to 256megs of ram (268435456) it booted right up.

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            edmaul69 @mediamogul
            last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 06:16

            @mediamogul also can you post the contents of your emulators file? Also are you just using a dummy start.txt file or did you modify it?

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              mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
              last edited by mediamogul 28 Jan 2017, 06:40

              @edmaul69

              emulators.cfg:

              basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/disk.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
              default="basilisk"
              
              

              start.txt is just the standard dummy.

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                edmaul69 @mediamogul
                last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 06:47

                @mediamogul yup. Just the standard info.

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                  edmaul69 @mediamogul
                  last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 09:40

                  @mediamogul so in your roms folder do you have anything besides your system folder, your rom and your img? Not sure if there was anything else you added there that it needed. Of course im sure you dont know of any else you had installed (as possibly mentioned by @Meneer-Jansen )

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                    mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                    last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 14:51

                    @edmaul69

                    Nothing else has been added. Will Basilisk launch for you without changing the color depth?

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                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 14:53

                      Check your dispmanx settings for that emulator.

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        edmaul69 @BuZz
                        last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 17:21

                        @BuZz when i turn dispmanx on just now all i get is a black screen. Cannot exit blindly either

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                          edmaul69 @BuZz
                          last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 21:45

                          @BuZz i also havent updated linux kernel since either 4.0 or 4.01 because i use the northwest controller fix and was too lazy to do that again if that matters any.

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                            BuZz administrators @edmaul69
                            last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 21:46

                            @edmaul69 it might help - at least to match your set-up against @mediamogul's

                            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              edmaul69 @BuZz
                              last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 21:47

                              @BuZz i will do it then.

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                                mediamogul Global Moderator
                                last edited by 28 Jan 2017, 21:56

                                I'm going out for the night, but I do have something to add to this before I leave. I've noticed that one in several instances of launching Basilisk II with an 8-bit color depth leads to a black screen on my setup as well. Once I noticed it, I continued to cycle through launches, trying to estimate how often this happened. While admittedly not scientific, I'd say that I get a black screen about one out of ten or so launches. Could this be the outside script not launching in time on a few occasions? I'm certainly not qualified to say, but I thought it was worth noting.

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                                  edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                  last edited by edmaul69 28 Jan 2017, 22:28

                                  @mediamogul so a couple questions, is dispmanx supposed to be on or off? What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?

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                                    mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                    last edited by mediamogul 29 Jan 2017, 05:06

                                    @edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:

                                    is dispmanx supposed to be on or off?

                                    I have mine turned on.

                                    What are your runcommand options on boot? Are you using a buffer size or a specific display size?

                                    Nothing was changed for any of these. Basically, after I got a working disk image on my desktop computer last May, I transferred it and the ROM, as well as the configuration file over to the Pi. It remained that way until I tried changing the color depth a few days ago.

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                                      edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                      last edited by 29 Jan 2017, 05:19

                                      @mediamogul if i turn it on i cant boot in 16+ bit. I will switch to b&w and turn it on then try to switch to 256 color

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                                        edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                        last edited by edmaul69 29 Jan 2017, 05:26

                                        @mediamogul ok so i got it to work. To go back to 32bit do i need to turn dispmanx off again?

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                                          edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                          last edited by edmaul69 29 Jan 2017, 05:37

                                          @mediamogul how do i get out of full screen? Im in doom and i chose to use my mouse. And now i dont know how to get the menu bar back

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